...and looked at Lola's feminized labor and emotional labor—things coded in our society as motherly love— and thought, "that is servitude."
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Based on the bare facts alone, I know something was wrong with the relationship between my grandparents. I will never know everything.
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There is horrific exploitation embedded in the chains of our familial ties through centuries. No exceptions for any of us.
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For someone, somewhere down the line, our existence—our familial tie—is the basis and rationale for their grief
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We are poison to our own mothers.
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Does Tizon quite get there? Not really, kind of, maybe. But I got there after reading. That's why his article will linger with me.
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The coda to this is that I am no longer convinced that Tizon didn't realize Lola was his mother. I thought so this morning.
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I changed my mind because I found out that "Lola" means grandmother, and he doesn't say so in the article.
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He makes what I think is a purposeful omission. It's possible he knew and wanted readers to get there themselves.
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My bad, I'm being corrected-- Lola is an honorific and it's hard to translatehttps://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/864710846219337728 …
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Final note, I am not erasing her status as a slave by calling her a wife, I am calling marriages (some today, all historically) enslavement.
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A friend of mine found out her grandmother was a mail order bride!
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Nothing romantic about my grandparents. Trying to decide if I want to talk to grandpa one last time but I also have urge to yell at him.
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I feel blessed my grandmother has opened up to tell me her story re: him in the last year that her children weren't as prepared to hear.
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Yes, there are many stories in my family that I will never get to hear-- being able to be connected to that suppressed history matters
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